So far, so good. I installed the whole Ace Mega codec pack, and that let me get in. Every time I tried to create a female ratling warrior, though, it hung; nothing happened. I went up to DirectX9.0C (XP ships with 8.1!), and got past that... partially. I also upgraded my vid card drivers to the latest versions (NVidia 61.77, I think), and now... Gareth has just finished his speech. So far, so good [img]smile.gif[/img]